Spice it Up, Coronado! Featuring Guest Speaker Anita Arambula

Discover a new favorite spice with the Coronado Public Library! Each month, the library has been inviting community members to explore different spices used in dishes around the world. Registrants will pick up the monthly spice selection at the library, cook with it, and join other food enthusiasts to talk about what they made and their thoughts about the spice. The meeting will be held, on Zoom, on Friday, April 22 at 2 pm. Once registered, participants will receive instructions on how to pick up a spice packet for the Spice It Up, Coronado program. The Zoom link will be emailed the day before we meet. Only one registrant per household, please. Please register at cplevents.org.

This month we will have a special guest speaker, features designer and art director at San Diego Union Tribune and food blogger, Anita Arambula. We will be trying two of her favorite ingredients, Mexican oregano and dried chilies.

Anita is a 33-year veteran journalist at the San Diego Union-Tribune where she currently spends her days as a senior designer and art director for the Food and Home + Garden sections. She has been a photographer, workshop leader, food stylist, darkroom technician, freelance writer and has made and sold jewelry at various points along her career. The two constants in her life since she was a child, however, have been her two biggest passions: food and photography. In 2007, Anita started her food blog, Confessions of a Foodie, as a way to share with family and friends some of her family’s recipes and eventually, her own creations as well as interpretations of popular dishes. Check out her blog Confessions of a Foodie.

See photographs and recipes from past Spice It Up, Coronado! HERE, then click on Open Access

Programs are made possible by the Friends of the Coronado Public Library.